Trump portrays 2024 race as a Christian battle, akin to D-Day

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

February 23, 2024 2:00 AM EST


Feb 22 (Reuters) - Donald Trump urged Christians on Thursday to support him in the 2024 presidential election, a contest he depicted in religious terms and likened to the great battles of World War Two.

Speaking at a forum for Christian broadcasters in Nashville, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination compared the stakes for the election to D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge and said God's involvement was needed to rescue the country.

"Today we are in another struggle for survival of our nation," Trump told the event organized by the National Religious Broadcasters association. "This time the greatest threat is not from the outside of our country, I really believe this: it's from within." "I am here today because I know that to achieve victory in this fight, just like in the battles of the past, we still need the hand of our Lord, and the grace of Almighty God."

Since launching his campaign in late 2022, Trump has regularly painted the state of the country in apocalyptic terms, seeking to undermine President Joe Biden's support ahead of a likely rematch for the White House.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-portrays-2024-race-christian-battle-akin-d-day-2024-02-23/

[DFW]

1. The old truism that Trump's "religious" supporters never understood

Stepping inside a church no more makes you a Christian than stepping inside a garage makes you a car.

[Mister Ed]

4. Not that Trump ever steps inside a church, of course.

I think the mindset of his religious supporters is something along the lines of, "I know Trump was sent by God because he hates the same people that me 'n' God hate."

[BaronChocula]

2. Christian religious participation is on the decline so

That's just another losing strategy.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. The next thing Trump'll say is that if he isn't elected,

the next day, Satan will rise from Hell to collect his Christian souls.

[jmowreader]

5. I kinda wish he would

Every category of crime would shrink dramatically if all the Christian souls were to be doomed to the Fifth Circle of Hell, at least until Satan figures out they like it too much there.

[Scrivener7]

6. Appallingly, a lot of Christians see it the same way. And he dog whistles to them all the time

in ways the press seldom catches.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Ironically, there's probably never been a bigger difference in true Christian belief than between Trump and Biden

in a presidential election, with, of course, Biden being the Christian. But Trump knows there's a large segment of evangelicals whose beliefs are based on hatred and desire to oppress, and they'll happily ignore the evidence of their New Testament, and of Trump's life, to implement that hatred and oppression.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Frightening. He's marshalling the Christian RW. Those churches can

Urge their congregations to vote for TSF and get them to the polls.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The Black churches can do (and have done) the same for Democrats

We saw that in the past with the "Souls to the Polls" efforts in states with early "in person" voting and the first thing the GOP started doing was to try to limit that.

[generalbetrayus]

10. The problem with right-wing evangelicals pushing their people to the polls

is not that they are pushing people to the polls, but who they are pushing those people to vote for when they go to the polls.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. That's a given

but we do the same. In either case, it's a matter of getting the "base" out but at this point, whites (and their evangelicals) are still a "majority", and unfortunately many of them spend a lot of time and money trying to keep our base from voting.

[LiberalFighter]

11. No mention about the chairs being removed because they couldn't fill them?

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I did see that earlier

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rally-removes-empty-chairs-photos-show-nashville-tennessee-1872697

Link to tweet

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More than two hours into the presidential forum, @realDonaldTrump is not yet on stage.

The room is far from full. About 20 mins ago, staff cleared out about 300 chairs from the far back corner. Photo on the left was taken just after 7pm, photo on the right was taken just now.
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10:09 PM · Feb 22, 2024

[Blue Idaho]

13. Let's hope he doesn't survive the landing.

Just imagine how much better a world without TFG will be. The good news is - we will find out in about 5-7 years…

[IcyPeas]

15. Trump must go home laughing at the stupidity of these RW Christians

[BumRushDaShow]

16. AP just had this breaking --

Trump says he ‘strongly supports’ IVF and calls on Alabama lawmakers to protect access

"The Decree®".